Luca's been earning his keep today. As the photo's above indicate, he made himself busy in the back garden, sweeping up after me as I cleaned and fixed the guttering in the back garden. Admittedly most of his sweeping was done after I'd cleared the mess, but it's always the intention that's important...

Aside from this, Beelzebub himself would struggle to match Luca in the evil stakes today. He awoke early this morning in a foul mood, and has essentially whined his way through the first half of the day. "Easy like a Sunday morning" it most certainly is not right now. Positives can always be found though, and the fact that he is now down for his afternoon sleep most certainly is that....

Too much to do today, but I'll add more detail through the week. However, as a final word for those in Lincolnshire, see my dad's blog (http://www.ianrstewart.blogspot.com/) for a cracking video of Luca on holiday - I wasn't even aware this was on the camera!

**Useless fact of the day - In Christianity, the name Beelzebub or Beelzebul may appear as an alternate name for Lucifer, the fallen angel or else may appear to refer to the name of a lesser devil. As with several religions, the names of any earlier foreign or "pagan" deities often became synonymous with the concept of an adversarial entity.
In Mark 3, verse 22, the Pharisees accuse Jesus of driving out demons by the power of Beelzeboul, prince of demons, the name also appearing in the expanded version in Matthew 12.24,27 and Luke 11.15,18–19. The name also occurs in Matthew 10.25**